None of those movies is a favorite, but you're essentially right (I'll quibble a bit though: LOTR did not give magic to the common people, only to wizards and elves, who were beyond doing petty things like feeding people. I think the premise works reasonably well. And the Matrix, although heck yes the humans as batteries idea is crap, it's a plot twist rather than a premise. But yeah, I did some complaining about that back in the day.)
Your biological-creature/car idea was pretty much what I was trying to get at with my 'kid's fairy tale' concept, yeah. For me, it doesn't work too well, and I wasn't motivated by the characters to try harder, really. I think that's all I wanted to say just now.
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Date: 2006-12-19 03:48 am (UTC)Your biological-creature/car idea was pretty much what I was trying to get at with my 'kid's fairy tale' concept, yeah. For me, it doesn't work too well, and I wasn't motivated by the characters to try harder, really. I think that's all I wanted to say just now.